Thesaurus / woolgathering
other words for woolgathering
- absent
- absorbed
- abstracted
- airheaded
- bemused
- careless
- daydreaming
- distracted
- distrait
- dreaming
- dreamy
- engrossed
- faraway
- forgetful
- goofing off
- head in the clouds
- heedless
- inattentive
- inconscient
- lost
- mooning
- moony
- oblivious
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remote
- removed
- scatterbrained
- space cadet
- spacey
- surroundings
- unaware of events
- unconscious
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unthinking
- withdrawn
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Really, God thought with annoyance, this woolgathering—at such a moment!
THE WORSHIPPERSDAMON FRANCIS KNIGHT
Mrs. Ferrall's wits returned nimbly from woolgathering, and she shot a startled, inquiring glance at the girl beside her.
THE FIGHTING CHANCEROBERT W. CHAMBERS
Such strange alleys do my thoughts run along when I am woolgathering in the field.
TELL ENGLANDERNEST RAYMOND
Woolgathering, Ben had missed some remark about Artemis' rigging.
WILDERNESS OF SPRINGEDGAR PANGBORN
I trust that your good man here is not jealous, for beauty, you well do ken, ever sends the wits of a Douglas woolgathering.
THE BLACK DOUGLASS. R. CROCKETT
In a woolgathering way, the animal acknowledged Reuben's feet, but had no time for them.
WILDERNESS OF SPRINGEDGAR PANGBORN
WORDS RELATED TO WOOLGATHERING
- absent
- absorbed
- abstracted
- airheaded
- bemused
- careless
- daydreaming
- distracted
- distrait
- dreaming
- dreamy
- engrossed
- faraway
- forgetful
- goofing off
- head in the clouds
- heedless
- inattentive
- inconscient
- lost
- mooning
- moony
- oblivious
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remote
- removed
- scatterbrained
- space cadet
- spacey
- surroundings
- unaware of events
- unconscious
- unheeding
- unmindful
- unobservant
- unthinking
- withdrawn
- woolgathering
- absent
- absent-minded
- abstracted
- airheaded
- amnemonic
- amnesic
- asleep on the job
- bemused
- careless
- distracted
- dreamy
- heedless
- inattentive
- lax
- like an absent-minded professor
- looking out window
- mooning
- moony
- neglectful
- negligent
- nirvanic
- not on the job
- oblivious
- out of it
- out to lunch
- pipe dreaming
- preoccupied
- remiss
- slack
- sloppy
- unmindful
- unwitting
- woolgathering
- abstracted
- astral
- calming
- chimerical
- daydreaming
- excellent
- fanciful
- fantastic
- gentle
- idealistic
- imaginary
- immaterial
- impractical
- intangible
- introspective
- introvertive
- lulling
- marvelous
- misty
- musing
- mythical
- nightmarish
- otherworldly
- out of this world
- pensive
- phantasmagoric
- phantasmagorical
- preoccupied
- quixotic
- relaxing
- shadowy
- soothing
- speculative
- unreal
- unsubstantial
- utopian
- vague
- visionary
- whimsical
- woolgathering
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